The Nicodemus enterprise. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1887-1887, 1887-10-26
ALL MEN EDITORS,
The Man Who Could Not Run News
paper Not Yet Discovered.

80 ONAANA-hy L nave uSfGI "
nd discovered the man who would al
in knowledge that he could not run
aar newspaper. He might be willing t
On acknowledge anything else; he migI
- confess that he had mistaken his cal
ing in becoming a minister; he NIGH
bic say that he was never built for law
VT yer, or that medicine was not his taste
nc he might own up that he could no
~ run a sawmill. locomotive, school
lie a hotel, steamboat, or a saloon
rs but he never you'd admit that b.
lie could not make a newspaper q howl.
y ing success.
- discovered this psychological fac.
- several years ago when a friend OF
- mine took trip to Europe and asked
me to run his paper for him while
he was away. Now, if there was any
one thing that I thought could do
tnen, 1t was to conduct newspaper.
so promptly acceded to his request
and was installed as editor. [ deter
mined IN the first place | would sonnd
pubic sentiment and find out aeon
rately what my readers wanted. Here
are few of their opinions.
Your editorials are too l0np. Poo
pie don read anything longer than it,
teen lines nowadays. They believe in
paragraphs"
why don't you give us some edito-
rlalsF Those short comments are NOT
worth reading. They give US 10 idea
Of IA subject -'A'''
You ought to give us more personal
and society news. Surely the NOV
menfs of respectable people are IF
much more Importance than the recordT I
OF the police court ~ /
WILL, -" Il. nat TN, makes you fill your paper i
win all this slushP Nobody cares to I
read that kind of stuff" "
II can see why YOU fill your nsnar L
win so much trivial local news, when a
so many important events are takir@ n
place elsewhere" b
"tor goodness sake give us rest c,
on this foreign news. Nobody bero n
Europe" ~ ''''ns III o.,
"Why don't YOU cater more - +bo to
lsdles? They are the greatest news 81
paper readers and it seems to me that
you slight them entirely" re
Look here! You are MAKING tn
mistake IN publishing a woman's ma as
'er' II you expect to succeed Won will ho
ave to put something stronger in it,o ter
las soon rs you quit publishing this
n1ernaI base bal! news you can renew
~ subscription. 0-''" ha,
"Wh2t's the matter with vour na,o,. Pre-
oW? 1t has no base bail news - hac
haS the only department. read, and anC
you cant give us more than YOU do. sen
nv, you can stop nv paper" PEG
"fou could greatly improve voDr pre-
'per by publishing articles Of the hast carr
lmorists occasionally" A
81 can't understand WHY Won stuH NnE
'Ir columns with the alleged bumor Soc
BI'l Nye. Bob Burdette and the funny add
ptrs: Nobody wants to read that hon,
I'd of truck 'A"' t t,oul
-" ell see You are publishing NEE
hot prohibition paper now, Yon tnre
Il make great many enenios br Tho
bra 'ing that folly" ate,
,,,a..r - 80" many complaints D 0C(
org the Prohibitlonlsts Of the luke BOSE
rmne5s Of the paper. They say that BAH
~, nave gone back on the Cause ,, tn
'lhere'S one thing lacking abont read
Z paper. You are not spicy and Hi 6
,ohal enough. People want person wh5cj
ok up" ~ "' S'1eu
on ought not to indulge 50 mucb one -
eFsonaiities. Maintain indicisI
> ana avoid anything like heat or IL ~
If the naner had , VINO r
! ,, IN IT, and fewer reIsiou6 notes. # . In u
III be more POPULAR -" ell
'liSlous people complain q croet 'ioacL
ABOUT Your filling your paper win , I.'9'.s
ing news, and neglectIng the t t9r $40
$ of the church." INC bitten
On was the advice got. T. Voc enough
mat III order to satisfy everybody Ior -
10 "ouoIe the size Of the paper or ,,') ~
nIlnue its publication entirely. 80 80 "n'
oned to adopt the advice in aac- tue sun
became by turns rapturousI,. III tue
Gus and subiimely ske1,icaI
IKE literiteur one week. and
Il tho - '-''1ont OF sporting New
II me next L constructed non NJ. IT.
'rt'clcs on the tariff and az pV ~ Miss ="
P ngtrated the giad, of the 1;d- were ii!
30 dlshed up an editorial on co ..Of G
l wrote iearnedlg about baso Brcezv
"a developed an easy COW hcr -
D my literary critiq9es. NO "acoh
very local plank walk that al dfamss.
10 and every Watermelon - contend
Nat had been given one wei. ara Of s
next wrote about the e.rIr lance to
nation Of Europe. I gave M thought.
.oont agriculture in way thu. Clara-b
'eo the entire granger t1eman. whole ba
up a public ofic al iudiriai a trils 0.
n nobody paid any atteSfie- -
denounced another official r. y
'o-heAded style. and CONTRACTED
: case Of Doctors bill on ar Pretty
IL anxious
- '1sp an editor for about 20 be sent
: L became aware Of the go - -
'e owner Of the paper did not - oeooino
ION ne would had nothirg - omaha
.aI left except the r7o~t,,t@,(,- coed.
pc and press. n. B.